Badlands Brewery Shorthorn Mid-Strength Pale Ale

Shaving one horn off their iconic logo, the Orange-based Badlanders' entry into the ever-evolving mid-strength sector is Shorthorn, coming in at one standard drink per 355mL can.

Filling your glass with a robust white head that might catch out the heavy-handed pourer, Shorthorn is a shade of pale hay with piquant, lightly malty aromas courtesy of German pilsner malts. It's a subtle tongue-tickler with sweet notes of "green bottle freshness", mildly bittered with a combination of Hallertau and Simcoe hops.

An especially refreshing flavour profile is paired with a light and quenching body that may well have you shortly looking down your glass and finding it empty.

Benedict Kennedy-Cox